Jim Esten

Current

Chief Technologist at WebDynamic, LLC

Past

Senior Project Manager at SysLogic, Inc.
Director, Interactive Services Group at Fullhouse
Senior Project Manager at Compuware

Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard
Tech Lead/Operations Lead at Metavante (M&I Data Services)

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Education

Cardinal Stritch University
Ripon College
Cardinal Stritch University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Jim Esten’s Summary

Wide range of IT experience including teaching, development (especially open source web dev - php, perl, mysql, joomla), architecture, project management, and people management.

Jim Esten’s Specialties:

Requirements elicitation and analysis, uml modeling, web site administration, information architecture

Jim Esten’s Experience

Chief Technologist

WebDynamic, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Principal of WebDynamic, an IT consultancy specializing in open source web development, particularly around the Joomla content management platform.
Senior Project Manager

SysLogic, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — August 2007 (9 months)
Director, Interactive Services Group

Fullhouse

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Senior Project Manager

Compuware

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — May 2006 (9 months)

Consulting position, IT Project Management for application developmnet
Solution Architect

Hewlett Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 — August 2005 (5 years 4 months)

In a consulting role, many assignments in Architecture, Project Management, and Program Management roles.
Tech Lead/Operations Lead

Metavante (M&I Data Services)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

March 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 3 months)

Led a team of 11 programmers in the architecture and development of custom Broadvision/Oracle based applications in the mortgage services industry. Later served as the escalation lead and primary liaison to a dedicated operations team. After deployment of the pilot application, oversaw the customization of the eGain electronic mail response management system for integration into the custom Broadvision/Oracle applications.

Jim Esten’s Education

Cardinal Stritch University

Ms , Computer Science Education , 1991 — 1993
Ripon College

BA , Sociology, Anthropology , 1981 — 1985

Activities and Societies:

Track, Golf, ROTC, Delta Upsilon
Cardinal Stritch University

MA in process , Lay Ministry , 2009

I have returned to school pursuing a master of arts degree in Lay Ministry at Cardinal Stritch University (where I received my MS in 1994 in Computer Science Education)

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Jim Esten’s Interests:

Woodworking, old tool collecting, cooking, soccer, catechesis, scouting

Jim Esten’s Groups:

Midwest Tool Collectors Association, Early American Industries Association, Cedarburg Soccer Club (long time rec U10 coach and also a USSF certified referree), Boy Scouts of America (past cub and boy scout leader, still doing active Merit Badge counseling), Catechist for St Francis Borgia parish in Cedarburg, WI